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Patented Sept. 4, 18831.

. .UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL K. BAYLEY, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,362, dated september 4, 1883.

` Application filed January 9, 1883. (No model.)

To LZZ whom it may concern: l L

Be it known that I, SAMUEL 'Il BAYLEY, of the city of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Railway-Cars, of

which the following is a specification.

a vertical section of the carlframe at the bolster, showing `parts of the floor and end of stringcrs onan iron bolster, and also the mode of applying the angle-iron and king-pin. Fig.

2 shows a vertical section at the bolster, when V woodis used insteadof iron, illustrating the way of using angle-irons'with a wooden bolster. Fig. 3 shows a similar section, a chair with `feet being `used to hold the Stringer inY place upon the bolster. Fig. 4 shows a kingpin with a screw-nut head keyed to the pin, and at the lowery end a flattened surface and key-hole. Fig. 5 shows a lmodified form of king-pin with a screw-head and key abovethe head, the part where the key goes through being smaller than the rest of the pin. At the other end it has a squared point with a keyhole. Fig. `6 shows another form of king-pin with a double screw-nut head keyed above and having a flattened surface near the top and another near the bottom. Fig. 7' shows` the king-pin with a plain head keyed with a keyhole near the topand a .joint midway of itslength.

. The king-pinA may be of any required size or suitable material, and is formed With a removable head, B, and a key -pin,` C, running through it, and with planed surfaces D and slots E.n 'lhere` may be various modications of the arrangement of these parts, as

shown in combination, as in Figs. 6 and 7. In

Fig. 5 the top of the pin is smaller, so that the key can be cut off, and then run through the thread of the screw-nut head and not damage it in any way. Fig. 6 has adouble screw-U nut head, and, if found necessary, can be keyed also. In this form of the pin the surface D is breaking of the insulation.

placed on the pin "very near the top. Fig. 7

has simply a plain "head keyed, and'is jointed at a point so that itcan be turned out over the top of the bolster. l A

The angle-irons F, lFig. l, are made in any ofthe forms of angle-iron in common use, and can have a web, H, running from top to bottom. When cast in chair form, it would be necessary, as shown in Fig. 3. The upper ends, G, of the angle-irons are turned in,'so as torelieve the bolt J from as much strain as possible. When a wooden bolster is used, the other end should also be turned, as in Fig. 2, and when rst put on a piece of paper or other substance should be put under, so that it can be partly or entirely removed when the timbers commence to shrink and be screwed up into place. Oneor two can be used to a Stringer, and they can be fastened by a bolt or lag-screw. To make them more secure, lips can be put on each side when they are the full Width of bolster, asin Fig. 3. Y

The object of having a removable king-pin in railway-cars, especially in refrigerator and` freight cars, is the saving of taking or cutting out the doors when they wish to get at the pin for repairs, and in refrigerator-cars they have to break through the. insulation, which is a great injury to them, also, when the trucksV have to be taken out thecar has to be jacked to a dangerous height, which requires considerable labor and skill, Whereas if they can p drop the king-pin below the Vcenter plate only a few inches rise will be enough to run the trucks out from under the car. All railroad men will see the usefulness of this invention, as when the pin has to be replaced it is generally found the car is loaded and necessitates unloading-one-half the car at least. `As I now `arrange the pin, it can be held while the head is turned, or ltaken off by the use of two wrenches, or a key-iron and wrench when iron bolsters are used; or blocks alongside of the head will-hold'it while being turned from below.

The angle-irons facilitate repairs when crosspieces or stringers are-broken, and in refrigerator-cars they are invaluable, Aas itsaves the I have shown some of the ways of putting them on; but

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they can be turned upside down Whenever convenient. y

WhatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,- is- 1'. In acar-frame, the combination ofstringers and cross-pieces, said stringers resting on top of the cross-pieces, with angle-irons each having one member thereof secured upon a cross-piece, and the other member to astringer by a projection, G, and bolt or bolts passing transversely through the same, substantially as described.

2. A round king-pin for cartrucks7 having a flattened portion or Wrench-holding surface and a removable head, substantially as de- 15 scribed.

3. .A'kingpin for car-trucks, having a lat portion or Wrench-holding surface, a removable head, and jointed midway or at any part of its length7. as and for the purpose shown 2o,

and described.

' SAM.` K. BAYLEY.

Witnesses:

W. E. CHAFFEE, H. C. HUNTEMANN. 

